Celebrating Gorgeous Colors with Our Leaves Fall Slime Recipe

A couple weekends ago we were driving through downeast Maine when the beauty of the fall leaves really hit me. The gorgeous colors mixed with the stately spruces was absolutely stunning to say the least. Sometimes my greatest inspirations for our homemade slime recipes comes from what is happening around us. I just had to make a leaves fall slime recipe celebrating the changing colors of the fall leaves.

GORGEOUS CHANGING LEAVES FALL SLIME RECIPE FOR KIDS!

If you haven’t noticed by now we LOVE our homemade slime recipes and really enjoy making new themes for the seasons and holidays. Colors, glitter, confetti all can create very fun themes when mixed into any of our easy to make slime recipes.

We do LOVE all things STEM related too and maybe you didn’t know that slime can also be used for a cool science demonstration with the kids. You will be the coolest adult around after this! Making basic slime is all about chemistry, and this is a great hands on learning experience.

Combining science with sensory play is also something we are very fond of around here. Slime is absolutely an amazing tactile sensory play activity for kids who love textures and to feel anything new. We consider slime to be an awesome sensory play recipe that is a must try.

WHAT IS HOMEMADE SLIME ALL ABOUT?

What’s the science behind the slime? The borate ions in the starch {or borax powder or boric acid} mixes with the PVA {polyvinyl-acetate} glue and forms this cool stretchy substance. This is called cross linking!

The glue is a polymer and is made up of long, repeating, and identical strands or molecules. These molecules with flow past one another keeping the glue in a liquid state.

The addition of water is important to this process. Think about when you leave a gob of glue out, and you find it hard and rubbery the next day.

When you add the borate ions to the mixture, it starts to connect these long strands together. They begin to tangle and mix until the substance is less like the liquid you started with and is thicker and rubberier like slime!

HOW DO YOU MAKE OUR LEAVES FALL SLIME RECIPE?

We have three recipes that can easily be used to make this colorful leaves fall slime recipe including saline solution, liquid starch, and borax powder! Depending on where you live, what you have available, and which recipe you like best, you can choose from one of the three below.

You will need PVA based glue for all of them. We like Elmer’s washable school glue the best, but I have heard that other brands of PVA glue work as well. I know some of you live in areas where this brand of glue isn’t available.

Below you will find three large black buttons each with a different recipe listed. Click to see each recipe including supplies, tips, and step by step instructions. You will even find a printable slime recipe cheat sheet.

Remember, it’s the colors and fun mix-ins like this leaf confetti that make your themes come alive just like this one!

YOU HAVE TO TRY: Pumpkin Slime too! It’s made is a real pumpkin. Plus, there’s a video too!

For these specific slime photos, we used our saline slime recipewhich you can find by clicking on that black button I mentioned earlier below. You might also find it called contact solution slime.

Keep in mind that saline slime still uses ingredients from the boron family, so it’s not borax free. I have seen many recipes safe or borax free, but most salines contain sodium borate and boric acid which are part of the same family as borax powder.

Check out how we used food coloring, leaf confetti, and plenty of glitter to create our theme. We chose three colors for our leafy fall slime recipe to represent the colors we see outside our window this month! I love fall!

You can use any colors you like or make them deeper or lighter depending on how many drops you use. I have listed the supplies below with links to Amazon to see what we like to use!

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